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Live blog: Team Ineos sign Giro winner Carapaz; Footage of Roglic crash during yesterday’s TV backout emerge; Shred it like Sagan; Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout; Weekend catch-up + more
All the news from the site and beyond as we start another week
Mon, Sep 02, 2019 18:50
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2 September 2019, 18:50
Here's some stories you may have missed at the weekend
2 September 2019, 18:50
Shred it like Sagan ...
Catch me if you can… Thanks to my friend @Daniel87Oss for his amazing filming skills and @GoPro for the incredibly steady Hero7 Black cameras. @iamspecialized @sportful @ride100percent @osmonutrition pic.twitter.com/AUeU8s8hT4
— Peter Sagan (@petosagan) August 30, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Slam dunk! Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout
Bicycle Kid doesn't care if you're driving a half million dollar car. DON'T TRASH MY STREET, ASSHOLE. pic.twitter.com/tuTmW4ysOs
— Angad (@angadadlakha) August 31, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Best press clipping ever
Wigan. The year is 1899, and never before or since have the words “using her fists in scientific fashion” been used to such delight. pic.twitter.com/7RS2eciAAi
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) September 1, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
It was a long. cold wait for the cable car down to the team buses at the Vuelta yesterday
We imagine some riders didn’t want to move from under the duvet on today’s rest day
Les coureurs attendent le téléphérique dans ce froid. Pluie et orages proches… Courage les gars ! #LaVuelta19 pic.twitter.com/YdcLjj58dW
— Josselin Riou (@josselin_riou) September 1, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Vuelta neutral service moto caused Roglic to crash, footage shows
Ahead of yesterday’s final climb at the Vuelta, a hailstorm caused the TV relay to fail with viewers left looking at images from the finish line camera.
Now, images have emerged of one dramatic event that everyone missed at the time – Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic crashing on the penultimate descent as he came round a bend and found a neutral service moto in his path ….
#LaVuelta2019 @rogla’s dirty crash https://t.co/gBA1KhNDk9
— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) September 2, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
One of the weirder transfer announcements we've seen
Here’s how the French team Arkea-Samsic announced its signing from Movistar of Nairo Quintana, currently leading the Vuelta. It’s up there with some of the weirder ones we’ve seen …
Arkea Samsic announces the arrival of Nairo Quintana pic.twitter.com/rCvKfLyqfi
— Race Radio (@TheRaceRadio) September 2, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
This is a bonkers course for the Prologue at the Boels Ladies' Tour in the Netherlands
Astonishingly, this is a 3.8km TT prologue course. A bit "technical" https://t.co/SAmC7efwof
— al (@Al__S) September 2, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Some nice shoes for Adam Blythe ....
2 September 2019, 18:50
Team Ineos sign Giro champion Richard Carapaz
Giro d’Italia champion Richard Carapaz is moving from Movistar to Team Ineos on a three-year deal, confirming the Ecuadorian’s widely expected switch.
The 26-year-old said: “I am very excited about joining the team. I feel this is a great opportunity for me to continue my development and growth as a rider, working with a team that continues to go from strength-to-strength, year after year.
“I already know a lot of the riders on the team and I am really looking forward to working everyone at Team Ineos from next season.
“I believe I will fit into this group well and race to my full potential over the coming years. I want to achieve some great triumphs for Team Ineos.”
Team Principal, Sir Dave Brailsford, welcomed the news of Carapaz’s arrival, commenting: “We are very pleased to have signed Richard from the start of the 2020 season. We have been long time admirers of his talents as a bike rider and have followed his development closely over a number of years, as we have always marked him out as a potential member of our team.
“He is obviously a fantastic climber but also has great versatility as he showed at the Giro earlier this year. He is still relatively young and I have no doubt he can develop and improve even further at Team Ineos.”
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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OnTheRopes 1 hour ago
So a driver who killed nobody can be charged with dangerous driving and receieve a prison sentence but they cannot get a dangerous driving conviction in this case? Beggers belief. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnwmPX-RXxU
Rendel Harris 1 hour ago
@perce Bit of both, our Nige isn't scared of multitasking!
perce 2 hours ago
@GMBasix Well normally I'd go for inveterate contrarian but on this occasion I think I'd go with befuddled idiot.
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
Unfortunately you'll be aware that the UK already has "dynamic speed limits". Before we even start, people should be dynamically *lowering* their speed anyway as the conditions dictate (restricted visibility, narrow carriageway, darkness, low sun, certain weather etc.) We have variable speed limits on motorways. Requiring people to check signs in a fairly "low distraction environment" is reasonable. Plus there's relative homogeneity of mass / speed / vulnerability of those thereon (excepting possibly motorbikers...) There are "please don't go faster when the lights are flashing" ones around schools. That is maybe not so good, eg. when children have to leave outside the regular times. Schools tend to be in "high mental workload for road users" urban environments also. Then there is the regular bad old UK habit of "the maximum is more of a target" and "I'll chance it because I've always got away with it and it's only taking the mick of you're more than 10mph over" "dynamic limits".
GMBasix 3 hours ago
I like to be courteous to correspondents. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes people have a different perspective. Some people have a lived experience that explains their world view. But nothing explains your response more readily than it is the contrivance of an inveterate contrarian or a befuddled idiot.
cruachan 4 hours ago
@Rendel Harris Given the state of the bike industry I fear that Raleigh will become yet another brand in the Frasers Group portfolio, they'll buy the IP and nothing else like they did with Wiggle CRC.
jackcycles 4 hours ago
[Petrol sniffer] Disappointingly illogical and rude comment. You've cheapened yourself there I'm afraid with a primitive lack of manners and understanding. To address the quote, of course lots of revenue can be gained by prosecuting people in a 20 zone, despite the fact that traffic speeds may only sometimes go above it. You might not have noticed, but traffic moves at different speeds depending on time of day and road conditions. For example, on a rainy morning, traffic tends to move very slowly due to congestion and safety concerns (both for the conditions and school children being dropped off). This is where a 20 limit would be appropriate, but also unnecessary due to self-regulation by responsible road users. Contrast this to when plod might be out, ambushing motorists with their speed guns: on a nice sunny clear day outside of peak times, looking to sneak out on an unsuspecting driver, driving down a nice straight hill, who's erred above the now arbitrary and unnecessary limit. This is why I favour dynamic speed limits, like they have in some parts of Europe.
Mr Blackbird 4 hours ago
Today's TDF Femmes stage was a great watch and good to see Kasia get the win. And almost as impressive was her performance in Tuesday's TT. The GC contest will be pretty exciting.
arowland 5 hours ago
@GMBasix Fine people for _wanting_ to go faster than 20mph of course.
cmedred 6 hours ago
@GMBasix No shite. Moronically contradictory. Should someone so mentally challenged even be allowed to drive?
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Team Ineos sign Giro winner Carapaz; Footage of Roglic crash during yesterday’s TV backout emerge; Shred it like Sagan; Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout; Weekend catch-up + more”
Good to see that even back
Good to see that even back then such posts were useless without pictures.
Bora-Hansgrohe DS: Errrrrmmmm
Bora-Hansgrohe DS: Errrrrmmmm, WC in a couple of weeks Peter?
Sagan: I am Sagan, I do what I like
kil0ran wrote:
It’s perfectly ok – he had a helmet on…
kil0ran wrote:
If he couldn’t do this he wouldn’t be Sagan, 1. you need the omni-biker-skills to be that good on the road and be World Champ 3 times, 2. Sagan the name, the brand is all about this stuff and that is worth millions. How many people will be buying Sagan bikes in 2024? [Hoy who?]
Hmm, the Roglic crash, was it
Hmm, the Roglic crash, was it more down to the treachorous conditions that happened to be next to the bike? All seem to be past it and then the bike has to brake as he was down. It does look like Valverde(?) and then Roglic pass the bike with plenty of room first.
Sagan has to be Sagan.
Sagan has to be Sagan.
It is the absolute joy of Sagan.
Thank you for the Lamborghini video.
As if the pollution wasn’t bad enough.
I would love to have the
I would love to have the nerve to hand back litter to the person who I’d seen toss it…
brooksby wrote:
I’d love to chuck fag butts back into the driver’s lap, too – preferably while still smouldering.
LastBoyScout wrote:
A mate did exactly that some years back. Chucked the still lit fag end back through the window onto its erstwhile owners lap and said “Sorry you dropped something”
Then again he is 6′ 4″ and when he wants to has a look that you don’t want to mess with him – I would never have gotten away with that
LastBoyScout wrote:
I remember a few years back, being the front seat passenger in a car. My friend who was driving went to toss her cigarette butt out of the window but the wind blew it back in and onto the back seat. Now that was a fun few minutes, trying to find it before we relived that scene in “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”…